Subject: Re: Problems booting up with Q700
To: Hugh Lindley <mule@comnet.ca>
From: Jason Andrew Godfrey <godfreja@uwec.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/08/1996 13:25:05
netbsd.quadra should be in ftp://ftp.macbsd.com/pub/outgoing/briggs/. 
It's not the latest kernal, but I cam't remember the URL for the latest.

Good Luck

On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Hugh Lindley wrote:

> I'm a NetBSD newbie and I've noticed that support for Q700 is finally
> available so I thought I would download it and get it running. I've managed
> to download all of the proper files for NetBSD 1.2 install and I think I've
> got things right. I've just got all the binaries from the 1.2 binaries
> directory of a mirror site.
> 
> There are a few things however that indicate to me that I'm doing something
> wrong. When I attempt to boot this is the error that I receive.
> 
>         FPU0 at obio 0 (mc6840)
>         nubus 0 at mainbus
>         Argh! No Boot Device?? Only supports disk device for booting.
>         Changing root device to a:
>         panic cannot mount root stopped at - debugger + 0x6: unlk db
>         db>
> 
> Because of this I'm not sure if I've got the right kernel installed. Here's
> a copy of my root (as taken from the installer utility.
> 
>     2 drwxr-xr-x   17        0      512 Dec  7 08:19 .
>      2 drwxr-xr-x   17        0      512 Dec  7 08:19 ..
>      3 drwxr-xr-x    2        0     8192 Dec  6  1996 lost+found
>    384 drwxr-xr-x    2        0      512 Sep  9 05:08 altroot
>    768 drwxr-xr-x    2        0      512 Sep  9 06:59 bin
>   1152 drwxr-xr-x    3        0     2560 Dec  7 15:35 dev
>   1920 drwxr-xr-x    8        0     1024 Dec  7 08:19 etc
>   4608 drwxr-xr-x    2        0      512 Sep  9 05:09 home
>   4992 drwxr-xr-x    2        0      512 Sep  9 05:09 mnt
>   5376 drwxr-xr-x    2        0      512 Dec  7 08:19 root
>   5760 drwxr-xr-x    2        0     1536 Dec  6 22:52 sbin
>   6144 drwxr-xr-x    2        0      512 Dec  6 22:48 proc
>   6528 drwxr-xr-x    2        0      512 Dec  6 22:48 kern
>   6145 drwxr-xr-x    2        0      512 Sep  9 05:09 stand
>   6529 drwxrwxrwt    2        0      512 Sep  9 05:09 tmp
>   6912 drwxr-xr-x   14        0      512 Dec  6 22:52 usr
>   8857 drwxr-xr-x   18        0      512 Dec  6 22:52 var
>     14 -rw-rw-r--    1      232   919896 Sep 25 07:00 netbsd
> fstat : No such file or directory
>     18 -rw-r--r--    2        0      629 Sep  9 09:18 .cshrc
>     19 -rw-r--r--    2        0      138 Sep  9 09:18 .profile
> 
> As you can see the Kernel, netbsd, is dated September 25. Is this the
> latest kernel that I should be using or is there a later one that I should
> use. If so where can I find it. I've checked the NetBSD current directory
> and to no avail I can't seem to find netbsd.quadra (that I've seen referred
> to in other posts there).
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "The medium is the massage." - Marshall McLuhan, another famous Canadian
> 
> Hlindley@exocom.com                                     (613) 567-2593 (h)
> Mule@comnet.ca                                          (613) 237-0257 (w)
> http://www.comnet.ca/~mule  <--- New and improved       (613) 237-0314
> (Fax)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
>